In 1937, when Finkenwalde had been closed on the orders of Himmler’s deputy, Reinhard Heydrich, Bonhoeffer wrote a little book entitled Life Together (Gemeinsames Leben). Its five chapters, Community [Gemeinschaft], The Day Together, The Day Alone, Service and Confession [Beichte] and the Lord’s Supper, describe his experience in the preacher’s seminary and the House of Brethren. He was able to have it printed at the time, and it has been reprinted many times since, both in German and translated into other languages, including English

(Ferdinand Schlingensiepen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906-1945: Martyr, Thinker, Man of Resistance, 182).